South Darfur: Nyala drinking water project to resume

The director-general of the South Darfur water corporation on Thursday announced resumption of work on the Nyala drinking water project.

The work on the El Baggara basin will cost more than SDG90 million ($15 million), director-general Adam Idris Dabaka said.

The project aims to supply the South Darfur capital Nyala with and extra 40,000 cubic metres of water a day, by drilling 20 underground wells, and establish an 85-kilometre pipeline between Gireida and Nyala.

On 1 April, Radio Dabanga reported an acute lack of drinking water in Nyala. An official of the water corporation predicted that the shortage is expected to continue until rains have filled the water supplies again.

Last October, the state Ministry of Urban Planning reported to the South Darfur parliament that the water supply in South Darfur covers only 20 percent of the needs of the population.

The MPs severely criticised the South Darfur water corporation’s failure to meet the growing need for drinking water by failing to enlarge its production capacities.